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MI Bottle House, built from 60,000+ bottles, Kaleva, MI ( US 31)
MI Call of the Wild ( More dead animals ) Gaylord, MI.
MI Derby wearing cow on the roof of Golden Nugget Saloon, Irish Hills, MI
MI Giant 30' neon Kielbasa, Kowalski Sausage, Hamtramck
MI Hand cranked ferry, between Douglas & Saugatuck,on the Kalamazoo River, MI
MI Hell, MI
MI Hiawatha,52 feet, Ironwood, MI
MI Home of the worlds largest Tire, Dearborn , MI.
MI More Paul Bunyons in Grayling, Manistique and Oscoda
MI Old Windmill,Holland,MI
MI Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, abandoned
amusement park, Rt. 23, Ossineke, MI
MI Pizza Boxes, An Abbor, MI More Info
MI World's Largest Hair Ball, Michigan State University,
MI Derby wearing cow on the roof of Golden Nugget Saloon, Irish Hills, MI
MI Giant 30' neon Kielbasa, Kowalski Sausage, Hamtramck
MI 1893 World's Fair Load of Logs, still attached to the sled, Ewen, MI
MI Zubler's indian( 50 feet and tacky) souvenir shop in Houghton Lake, MI
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MI Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum(
Outrageous!!) Farmington Hills MI
MI The Shrine of the Pines( absolute must for wood lovers!) Baldwin, MI
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These places have strange powers. Approach with great caution!
Mystery Spot, St. Ignite, MI
MI The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, Schoolcraft, MI More Info
MI The Second Baptist Church, Detroit, MI More Info
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- Halstead House - haunted by the ghosts 2 children who are seen on the stairs. Detroit - General Motors Plant - a man was saved from being crushed by a ghost of man that died that way in 1944. Grand Rapids - Michigan Bell Telephone Company - haunted by the Randall's , whose home stood on the ground where this building is today. Holly - Holly hotel - various happenings. ghosts of people, guests, things that go bump in the night. Flint - Cornwall building - the old Cornwall family is said to still walk the place. You can see them in the window of the old office from 3rd street. Burton - Friend's house - banging on walls, little boys with no legs playing with stereo, bouncing ball in basement and shattering glass. Wyandotte - Fifteenth Street House - there is an apparition of a young girl who appears in the window in the front of the house. As the story goes, there was a man that would leave for work at the same time every day, and every day his little girl would wave goodbye to him from the window. One day she was not there to wave goodbye, so he figured she had overslept and went to leave, when he began to back up he heard a scream, when he got out of the car to take a look he found that she was running his lunch out to him and was hit by the car, while he was backing up. Fife Lake - Battenfield House - Previous residence of one of MI well known mass murderers who was found to have poisioned several family members because she liked to attend social events and used the murders to provide the social contact she craved. Two of the murders occurred in this house. Hauntings include burning flames seen on upstairs newel post which left no heat or burn. Dearborn - Greenfield Village - haunted by many ghosts in most of the homes, the most active are in Firestone Farm, and Webster home. A man commited sucide in the barn at the farm, and Webster is just unhappy. Ypsilanti - Denton Road Bridge - The story goes that a group of kids were playing chicken near Denton Road bridge, and one of them proved to be chicken. His car swerved off the road when they reached the bridge, and crashed into the river below. Many people claim to see a light come out of river and chase their vehicle to the end of the road, if they stop at the center of the bridge at night. Sheldrake - The Town of Sheldrake - is about four miles north of Paradise, Michigan. You can't find Sheldrake on any map, because it if a VERY small town. Few people live there, but none of them will talk about the hauntings. People that live there year-round will see more than any tourist. Lights turning on by themselves, window shades opening without anyone around, and an old sea captain who will disapper when boats pass. They had many fires and boat accidents. Detroit - Coca-cola Plant - a supervisor was shot by a disgruntled employee in the 50s. He is sometime seen yelling at workers and keeping the line running when the supervisors are gone. Ypsilanti - Ladies' Library - This historic structure was once the home of the Starkweather family, but was donated to the city by Maryanne Starkweather upon her death, to be used as a library. It was renovated for office space about 15 years ago. Many claim to have seen Maryanne in the upper halls of building, or have hear footsteps above them when working after hours - long after the building was closed up for the day. Roberts Landing - Roberts Landing road - Two adults and 1 child walk the Roberts Landing road at sunset. Said to have been returning home from a party when their home was destroyed by fire. They keep returning in their car, which is also seen. Schoolcraft - The Harrison Cemetery - the site in question is the "glowing tombstone" , at a distance you can see one tombstone glow in the dark. The tombstone glows until you get to the edge of the cemetery, then it goes dark. You cant really pinpoint the actual tomb and there's no lights around to illuminate it either. Some say its made out of phosphorous and others say its mercury vapor reflecting off a shiny tombstone. but it doesn't explain why it goes dark when you get within 500 feet. the only close house to it is 1/4 mile away. The cemetery is named after Bazel Harrison, who led 21 of the first settlers of the Prarie Ronde Kalamazoo county. Both him and his wife martha are buried there. Jackson - Vander Cook Lake Castle - A white mist is seen as you approach the castle. Grand Rapids - Amway Grand Plaza Hotel - in the old part (smoking section now). Objects moving on their own. Niles - Bond Street Mansion - The bond street family cemetary is across the road. A little girl who lived with her parents in the mansion died of fright in the 1800's after her bedside candle was blown out by a draft in the middle of the night. She is buried in a tomb in the cemetary. It is said that her mother had an underground pathway built under the road to her daughters tomb and she would visit the tomb every night. They say to this day,you can see the woman's ghost walk across the road and weep at her daughters grave and every night a mysterious light will shine in the upstairs bedroom window and then suddenly go out. Kalamazoo - Old State Hospital - Red lights, noises and even writing on the walls take place here between 11-12 at night. People who live near it say different things occur every night....even the image of a person in the window. Willis - The Pickle Barrel restaurant - has a various ghostly activity. Mt. Pleasant - The Ghost of Warriner Hall - long ago there was a young actress who frequented Warriner Hall (CMU campus). Evidently at some performance or rehearsal...she was downstairs from a friend of hers and decided to call up to this friend using the Dumbwaiter shaft that had been out of commission for some time. As she leaned her head in, the dumbwaiter came crashing down and beheaded her! Since the incedent, there have been a few sightings. A mysterious blue lighting accompanies her spirit, and she has never been seen by a crowd...generally she is seen by actors or stage hands working alone. She seems a bit of a prankster,dropping lights, or gels or ladders. Van Buren - Hawks head cemetery - This is supposedly the burial ground for Al Capones misstress by the name of Flora. Many people have seen an apparition of a female in a transparent like white dress. Before she is seen you will here chimes coming from the back of the cemetery, she will then apear somwhere the first two driveways. Also If you just drive by the cemetary, there is dim red light that will appear along side of the middle driveway. Commonly known as a ghost-light... Ann Arbor- Huron High School
theatre. Traverse City- Bower's Harbor Inn Novi-Home Sweet Home East Lansing-Fairchild Auditorium Grayling-Pere Cheney Cemetery- Soul Choix Point -Upper Penn Olivet-Olivet College- Ada Cemetery Traverse City - Bower's Harbor Inn
- Farmington Hills-Farmington
Cemetery- Battle Creek- Oak Hill
Cemetery- North of Eagale River in the UP- Dearborn-Greenfiled village at
Henry ford museum- New Baltimore-Morrow Road- Westland-Eloise Insane Asylum- Cheboygan - Hikyes Tomb- Marquette-Northern Michigan
University- Straville-Marrow Rd.- Presque Isle- Light House- Marshall-International House (bed
and breakfast-now)- Newaygo High School- Kelloggsville-Kelloggsville High
School- Marquette-Landmark Inn- Bloomield Hills-Fox and Hounds
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| Ann Arbor,MI Just outside town, if you look off to the right as you travel on the freeway ramp from US-23 North onto M-14 East going toward Detroit, there is a work depicting a very large number of pizza boxes, haphazardly stacked. It stands in a section of the Domino Farms, headquarters of Domino's Pizza Corp |
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| The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, built in
1835, was the home of one of Michigan's most active Underground Railroad participants, a
founding member of the state's Republican Party and Kalamazoo County's first physician.
Born in Mt. pleasant, Ohio, a Quaker town well-known for the antislavery activities of its
residents, Dr. Nathan Thomas (1803-1887) settled in Schoolcraft around 1833. In 1835, he
constructed a building that served as both an office and residence. Five years later he
enlarged the house when he married Pamela Brown of nearby Prairie Ronde township. Pamela
Brown Thomas' memoirs, written in 1892, provide much information on her and her husband's
Underground Railroad activities. Referring to Dr. Thomas' early days in Schoolcraft,
before their marriage and the construction of his office and residence in 1835, Mrs.
Thomas wrote, "His antislavery views were so well known, that, while he was a
bachelor boarding at the hotel, fugitives from slavery had called on him for assistance
and protection." Pamela Brown Thomas estimated that between 1840 and 1860 she and her
husband helped between 1,000 to 1,500 fugitive slaves escape into freedom. By the
mid-1840s, a group of abolitionists in southwest Michigan had created an organized system
for transporting fugitive slaves. Slaves were often brought to the Thomas House by
Zachariah Shugart, a fellow Quaker living on Young's Prairie, Cass County. Dr. Thomas
would then shuttle the runaways to Erastus Hussey, another fellow Quaker living in Battle
Creek. The slaves would eventually make their way to Detroit and onto freedom in Canada.
The first physician in Kalamazoo County, Dr. Thomas not only practiced medicine but also
became involved in state politics. In 1837, he was one of 400 residents in Prairie Ronde
and Brady (now Schoolcraft) townships who petitioned Congress in opposition to the
annexation of Texas because of the territory's support of slavery. Two years later, he
joined others in founding a Michigan newspaper devoted to the antislavery cause and in
1845 ran unsuccessfully as Lt. Governor on the abolitionist Liberty Party ticket. A key
participant in an 1854 antislavery convention in Jackson, Michigan, Dr. Thomas was a
nominating committee member of the newly-formed Michigan Republican party. The party
ticket triumphed that year, beginning a period of Republican domination of the state
government. The Dr. Nathan Thomas House is located at 613 East Cass Street in Schoolcraft, Michigan. Tours are available by appointment by writing to: Schoolcraft Historical Society, P.O. Box 638, Schoolcraft, Michigan 49087. |
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| The Second Baptist Church,
featuring subdued Gothic elements, was constructed in 1914 to replace an earlier church
building. It continues to house Michigan's first African American congregation. The
congregation was established in 1836, when 13 former slaves decided to leave the First
Baptist Church because of its discriminatory practices. The church quickly became involved
in the period's most bitter dispute--slavery. First meeting at a hall on Fort St, the
congregation moved to the present location in 1857. Just miles away from the freedom that
the Canadian border offered to escaped slaves, the church soon became a stop on the
Underground Railroad. Its leaders helped form the Amherstburg Baptist Association and the
Canadian Anti-Slavery Baptist Association, both of which supported abolitionism. These
organizations aided the ever-increasing number of fugitive slaves fleeing north, both
spiritually and materially. Significant figures in the abolitionist movement were
associated with the church, such as Soujourner Truth, John Brown, and Frederick Douglas.
Douglas discussed abolition with Second Baptist leaders before addressing citizens at the
church 1859. The church's activism was not limited to slavery, however. In 1843 and in 1865, it hosted a "State Convention of Colored Citizens" to petition the Michigan government for Negro Suffrage. After the Civil War, the church played a vital role in helping thousands of migrating freed slaves in securing homes and jobs in and around Detroit. The present Second Baptist Church building replaced the Congregation's first church which was destroyed by fire in 1914. Two additions, one in 1926, and a second in 1968, flank either side of the building and testify to the congregation's continued vitality. The Second Baptist Church today remains, as it has been throughout its history, a source of inspiration and encouragement to its members and neighbors. The Second Baptist Church is at located at 441 Monroe Street, just east of the intersection of Gratiot Avenue (US 25) and Woodward Avenue within the Greektown Historic District. The building is open to the public. |